A space between
freedom and limitation.

LAI Hung-chung graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts and founded HUNG DANCE in 2017. His choreography draws on contemporary movement, Chinese opera, and Tai Chi, developing a distinctive language rooted in both tradition and contemporary thinking. In 2016, he became the first choreographer to receive four awards in a single edition of the Taiwan Creative Dance Competition. In 2025, Push and Pull received First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Hannover International Choreography Competition, along with four partner awards at RIDCC. Alongside creating new work, LAI develops training methods that support his dancers’ abilities and artistic exploration. He is also committed to international collaboration and creating opportunities for emerging dance artists.

Originally from Keelung, Taiwan, CHENG I-han holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in dance from Taipei National University of the Arts. She joined HUNG DANCE in 2017 and serves as a full-time dancer and rehearsal director, performing and teaching workshops in Taiwan and internationally. Her company repertoire includes BIRDY, Watcher, See You, Feline, and Giovanni Insaudo’s MITICI. Alongside performing, CHENG develops her own choreography. Her solo Miss Shape premiered at the 2023 Stray Birds Dance Platform before travelling to festivals in South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Spain. In 2026, she was selected for Taiwan’s Young Stars New Vision program and presented A Mass of Lucky Meat, which toured northern, central, and southern Taiwan.

Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, LEE Kuan-ling graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts and joined HUNG DANCE in 2020. Performance credits with the company include BIRDY, See You, Push and Pull, Feline, and Giovanni Insaudo’s MITICI. In 2020, LEE collaborated with new media artists on Order from Chaos, which received the Silver Award and S-An Aesthetics Award at the Taiwan Creative Dance Competition. Other credits include the Cloud Gate Art Makers Project and Astor Piazzolla’s operita María de Buenos Aires. Since 2022, LEE has toured with HUNG DANCE across Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia, appearing at the American Dance Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festival Off Avignon, Adelaide Fringe, NYU Skirball, and Vancouver Playhouse.

Originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, LU Ying-chieh graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts and joined HUNG DANCE in 2020 as a full-time dancer. Her repertoire includes BIRDY, See You, Formless Erosion, Hug, Push and Pull, Feline, and Giovanni Insaudo’s MITICI. She has toured extensively with the company throughout Taiwan and across Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Australia. In 2021, LU appeared as a guest dancer with HORSE in FreeSteps: Sunlight, Trajectory, Figures. That year, she also performed in Astor Piazzolla’s operita María de Buenos Aires, co-produced by Weiwuying and City Contemporary Dance Company. In 2026, she participated in HORSE’s Primal CHAOS series, exploring improvisation through dance and sound.

Originally from Chiayi, Taiwan, WU Shin-jie trained at Tsoying Senior High School and graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts. She joined HUNG DANCE in 2020 and serves as a full-time dancer. Her performances with the company include BIRDY, See You, Formless Erosion, Hug, Push and Pull, Feline, and Giovanni Insaudo’s MITICI. She has toured extensively throughout Taiwan and internationally. WU also performed in CHIEN Lin-yi’s Eight Pains, which received the Silver Award at the Taiwan Creative Dance Competition, and Still Tomorrow, presented through Chiayi New Style Choreography. In 2021, she appeared in Astor Piazzolla’s operita María de Buenos Aires, co-produced by Weiwuying and City Contemporary Dance Company.

Originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, HO Tzu-wen graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts and joined HUNG DANCE in 2021. Her company repertoire includes BIRDY, See You, Formless Erosion, Hug, Feline, and Giovanni Insaudo’s MITICI. HO premiered her solo work Wander in Shallow at the inaugural Stray Birds Dance Platform. Other performance credits include SU Wei-chia’s FreeSteps, Island Through Time at the Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Art, and CHIEN Lin-yi’s award-winning Eight Pains. Since 2022, she has toured internationally with HUNG DANCE across Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia. Appearances include the American Dance Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festival Off Avignon, Adelaide Fringe, NYU Skirball, and Vancouver Playhouse.

Originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, CHEN Ting-yu graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts and joined HUNG DANCE in 2023. She has toured nationally and internationally in company works including BIRDY, The Peter Pan, Glanced Crack, Feline, Push and Pull, and Giovanni Insaudo’s MITICI. As a choreographer and performer, CHEN co-created Somewhere over the Rainbow, selected for the 2021 Stray Birds Dance Platform. In 2023, she co-created and performed Daytime for Kaohsiung City Ballet’s Dance Shoe. Previously a dancer with Dance Forum Taipei, CHEN performed in Toru Shimazaki’s Blood and Steel, Shattered Moon, and South. Her additional credits include SANG Jijia’s Matchstick Man and ZHANG Xiaoxiong’s The Floating Life.

Originally from Taipei, HUANG Li-chieh graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts. From 2014 to 2023, he was a full-time dancer with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, touring internationally and frequently performing major roles under artistic directors LIN Hwai-min and CHENG Tsung-lung. His repertoire included Rice, Legacy, 13 Tongues, and TAO Ye’s 12. He now performs with HUNG DANCE in BIRDY, Glanced Crack, and Feline. HUANG’s practice also spans dance education, rehearsal direction, circus performance, and event hosting. Recent work includes teaching with FOCASA Circus and performing in LIN Hwai-min’s One to One Hundred: A Brave Journey. Other collaborations include Belgian dance-theatre company Peeping Tom’s Diptych.

WU Tsung-yang graduated from the Seven-Year Dance Program at Taipei National University of the Arts. In 2024, he joined Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. His performance credits include TSAI Po-cheng’s Flowing and Dreaminess, WANG Yeu-Kwn’s BE THERE, Ihsan Rustem’s Boléro, ZHANG Xiaoxiong’s Sleepless Night and Lament, TSAI Hui-chen’s Forking Path, LO Man-fei’s Breaking Through, and GOH Boon-ann’s Dreaming (2019). Alongside performing, WU creates his own choreography. In 2022, his work Biyi Island received the Excellence Award at TNUA’s Northern Dance Creation Platform. The work was subsequently presented at Za-Koenji Public Theatre in Japan in 2023.